Through April 23. Smart Museum of Art, 773/702-0200. A group of European
and American landscape paintings, the exhibition examines how artists shared
techniques and traditions across national boundaries and questions the idea
that landscape styles are specific to particular countries.

Fences

January 12–February 12. Court Theatre, 773/753-4472. Former baseball
star Troy Maxson grapples with lost dreams, family pressures, and social
boundaries as he embarks on a tedious household project of constructing
a picket fence around his yard. Set in the 1950s, Fences is the
third in the late playwright August Wilson’s series of ten dramas
exploring the 20th-century African American experience.

Courtesy D. R. Halverson

Caroling with the Carillon

December 11, 5 p.m. Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 773/702-7059. Kick off
the holiday season with hot cider, caroling, and the melodic big bells of
Rockefeller Chapel. Join carillonneur Jim Fackenthal beforehand at 4:30
p.m. and climb to the tower for a breathtaking view of Chicago’s skyline.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

January 22. Mandel Hall, 773/702-8068. The country’s only full-time
professional chamber orchestra, now in a three-year residency at the University,
performs works from Schumann’s “dark period,” including
the overture to Genoveva and Symphony No. 2 in C Major, and James MacMillan’s
Veni, Veni Emmanuel. Acclaimed Scottish oboist Douglas Boyd conducts,
joined by percussionist Colin Currie.

Poem Present Series: Reading and Lecture by Vincent Katz

January 26, 5:30 p.m. Rosenwald 405, 773/834-8524. Contemporary poet Vincent
Katz presents his translation of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius
as part of the Humanities Division’s readings and lecture series.
Cosponsored by the Department of Classics.